Abstract
Profiles of Marginalized Children: Invisible Children begins with a review of stories of individual children highlighting the common conditions and influences that define marginalization. These stories place faces and names on the conditions that create invisibility. They represent the human costs behind the numbers. Even so, the numbers merit examination. For example, more than 218 million children are involved in some form of harmful child labor and, of these, half are subject to physical or sexual abuse. Their situation compels redress distinct from the nearly 200 million young people who are unemployed and idle because their local economies cannot accommodate their rising demographic. Chapter 1 sets the terms upon which the ensuing examination of complex children’s issues will proceed.
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Name changed by PBS to protect the child’s identity.
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Until 1989, Myanmar was known as Burma. The Bamar ethnic group, which gave rise to the original name of Burma, is the largest of more than 135 ethnic groups in the country. Despite its name change, citizens in Myanmar are still commonly referred to as Burmese.
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The terms low-income countries and high-income countries are used to classify countries by the average income (GDP per capita) of their citizens. Low-income countries tend to have a lower standard of living and less-industrialized economies compared to high-income countries. These terms are used in an attempt to move away from more Western-centric classifications such as undeveloped/developed and Global North/Global South. It is important to note that these classifications are based on average income, and disparity between high- and low-income individuals exists in every country.
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Ajmera, M., Fields, G.A. (2016). The Sounds of Silence. In: Invisible Children. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57838-9_1
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